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Combat du Chevalier d'Eon [joint] Cercle de l'Escrime - Assaut du 12 janvier 1895 by ANONYME - 1895

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Combat du Chevalier d'Eon [joint] Cercle de l'Escrime - Assaut du 12 janvier 1895 by ANONYME - 1895

Combat du Chevalier d'Eon [joint] Cercle de l'Escrime - Assaut du 12 janvier 1895

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Encre sur papier, 1895. Fine. Encre sur papier 1895, Dessin : 27x21 cm / Programme : 22x28 cm, Une feuille et un feuillet remplié. - Dessin original à l'encre représentant le duel entre le Chevalier d'Eon - habillé en femme - et Monsieur de Saint-Georges qui se déroula le 9 avril 1787 à la demande du Prince de Galles, Georges Auguste de Hanovre, futur George IV d'Angleterre. Cachet de la signature de l'artiste dans l'angle inférieur droit de l'œuvre et monogramme de l'artiste ; cachet de l'atelier au verso. Mention manuscrite au dos, au crayon à papier, du titre, et de la date. Très bel état de conservation. Provenance : atelier de l'artiste, référencé au catalogue Atelier Louis Anquetin (Thierry de Maigret, 28/11/08). On joint un programme publié par le Cercle de l'Escrime, annonçant notamment la « reconstitution de l'Assaut de la Chevalière d'Eon et du Chevalier de Saint-Georges » le 12 janvier 1895 ; au verso du premier feuillet est reproduit le dessin que nous proposons ici. Selon certaines sources, Charles Geneviève Louis d'Eon de Beaumont dit le Chevalier d'Eon, serait né hermaphrodite. Fort de son androgynie, il devint espion pour le compte du « Secret du roi » et apporta à la France - grâce à son travestissement et sous l'identité de Lia de Beaumont - d'importants succès diplomatiques. A la mort de Louis XV, le service secret royal dissout, le Chevalier se retrouva désœuvré et criblé de dettes. Précurseur du transgenre il fut le premier à choisir son genre, à la demande de Louis XVI. Renonçant dès lors à ses droits militaires, il fit carrière dans l'escrime, multipliant les combats publics jusqu'à la fin de sa vie. Après sa toilette mortuaire, il fut déclaré que la ""Chevalière"" était pourvue d'attributs masculins. Louis Anquetin, né à Étrépagny en 1861 et mort à Paris en 1932, est un important peintre français. Il commence sa carrière aux côtés de peintres d'avant-garde tels que Vincent Van Gogh ou Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Avec Émile Bernard, il est l'inventeur du Cloisonnisme. De 1884 à 1893, Louis Anquetin ne cesse d'explorer les possibilités nouvelles offertes par la libération introduite par l'Impressionnisme dans la peinture française. A partir de 1893, à la suite d'une longue confrontation avec les « maîtres d'autrefois », il adopte un parti-pris pictural qui le mettra en marge du mouvement général de l'art, et l'éloignera de ses amis. Ébloui par l'art baroque et sa vigueur créatrice, il pense alors que ses amis de jeunesse se sont engagés dans une voie qui mènera à la mort de la peinture. Il croit en une « peinture parfaite » qui s'incarne dans le re-souvenir des leçons de Michel-Ange et de Rubens notamment. Son travail devient donc plus classique, il prône le retour au métier, en proposant de réfléchir sur les conditions a priori de toute forme d'art possible dans le respect des règles de la perspective et de l'anatomie, telles que pratiquées par les maîtres du XVIème et XVIIème siècle. Ne laissant que quelques œuvres que l'on peut qualifier de monumentales, Anquetin s'avère prolifique par ses nombreuses études et esquisses, lui qui considérait que le dessin était « un moyen d'expression tout puissant », le fondement obligatoire de tous les arts plastiques. En travaillant volontairement à rebours de son époque, Louis Anquetin a rendu possible l'existence d'une figuration moderne originale. Par son obstination et sa passion de la peinture, il a en effet évité que ne soit totalement obturé le chemin de la grande tradition occidentale. On peut admirer ses œuvres dans de nombreux et prestigieux musées comme le Musée d'Orsay ou Le Louvre à Paris, à San Francisco ou à Detroit, au Musée de l'Hermitage de Saint-Pétersbourg, à la National Gallery et à la Tate de Londres, etc... Précieuse représentation de la Chevalière d'Eon, personnage romanesque aujourd'hui considéré comme le ""saint patron"" de la communauté LGBTQ. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Battle of the Chevalier d'éon. Original ink drawing [with] Cercle de l'Escrime - Assaut du 12 janvier 1895
1895| 27 x 21 cm | one drawing
Original ink drawing showing the duel between the Chevalier d'éon - dressed as a woman - and Monsieur de Saint-Georges, which took place on the 9 April 1787 at the instigation of the Prince of Wales, George August of Ha nover, future George IV. Artist's signature stamp to lower right-hand corner of the work and artist's monogram. Atelier stamp to verso. Manuscript note of title and date in pencil to verso: 1895. Fine condition. Provenance: the artist's workshop, as referred to in the Atelier Louis Anquetin catalogue (Thierry de Maigret, 28/11/08). Also included is a program published by the Cercle de l'Escrime, announcing the ""reenactment of the Contest of the Chevalière d'éon and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges"" on the 12 January 1895; the drawing offered for sale is reproduced on the verso of the first leaf. According to some sources, Charles Geneviève Louis d'éon de Beaumont, known as le Chevalier d'éon, was born a hermaphrodite. Making use of his androgyny, he became a spy for the King's secret service and brought France - dressing as a woman and adopting the identity of Lia de Beaumont - significant diplomatic successes. After the death of Louis XV, the Royal secret service was dissolved, and the Chevalier found himself without employment and crippled by debt. A forerunner of the transgender movement, he was the first to choose his gender, at the request of Louis XVI. Renouncing his military rights, he made a career in fencing, undertaking many public bouts right to the end of his life. After his body was laid out following his death, they declared that the ""Chevalière"" had male attributes. Louis Anquetin, born in Étrépagny in 1861 and died in Paris in 1932, is an important French painter. He began his career alongside avant-garde painters such as Vincent Van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He is the inventor, with Émile Bernard, of Cloisonnism. From 1884 to 1893, Louis Anquetin never stopped exploring the new possibilities that the freedom of Impressionism brought to French painting. From 1893, following a long confrontation with the ""maîtres d'autrefois"" ""masters of the past,"" he adopted a pictorial bias which would put him on the fringes of the general art movement and distance him from his friends. Dazzled by Baroque art and its creative vigour, he then thought that his childhood friends were taking a path that would lead to the death of painting. He believes in a ""peinture parfaite"" ""perfect painting,"" which is embodied in the re-remembering of Michelangelo and Rubens' lessons in particular. His work, therefore, becomes more classic; he advocates the return to the profession, by proposing to reflect on the a priori conditions of any possible form of art in accordance with the rules of perspective and anatomy, as practised by the masters of the 16th and 17th century. Leaving only a few works that can be described as monumental, Anquetin proves to be prolific as a result of his many studies and sketches; he who considered that drawing was ""un moyen d'expression tout puissant"" ""an all powerful means of expression,"" the obligatory foundation of all fine art. By working voluntarily in reverse of his time, Louis Anquetin made the existance of an original modern portrayal possible. Through his persistance and his passion for painting, he indeed prevented the path of the great western tradition from being completely sealed. His works can be admired in many prestigious museums, such as the Musée d'Orsay or the Louvre in Paris, in San Francisco or in Detroit, in the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, in the National Gallery and the Tate in London, etc. A handsome representation of the Chevalière d'éon, a Romantic figure today considered the ""patron saint"" of the LGBTQI community.
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